COMP8300 Parallel Systems

S16 units8000-level

A practically oriented introduction to programming paradigms for parallel computers. Considers definitions of program efficiency on parallel computers, addresses the modelling, analysis and measurement of program performance. Description, implementation and use of parallel programming languages, parallel features of operating systems, library routines and applications.

2024S1
2025S1
2026not offered
2027S1

Prerequisites in 2025

Read automatically from the handbook's wording

One of

COMP6310Systems, Networks and Concurrency
COMP2310
COMP6330Operating Systems Implementation
COMP3300
COMP6331Computer Networks
COMP3310
COMP6464High Performance Scientific Computing
ENGN6539Computer Networks

Incompatible with COMP4300: you can't count both.

The handbook's wording, and when it changed

2024
To enrol in this course you must be studying: Graduate Diploma of Computing OR Master of Computing OR Master of Computing (Advanced) OR Master of Machine Learning and Computer Vision OR Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering. Incompatible with COMP4300 .
2025–2027
To enrol in this course you must have completed: COMP6310 /2310 OR COMP6330 /3300 OR COMP6331 /3310 OR COMP6464 OR ENGN6539 Incompatible with COMP4300 .

What it leads to in 2025

No course names COMP8300 in its 2025 prerequisites.

COMP8300 in the 2025 handbook on Programs and Courses